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  1. Jim Pattison, a Vancouver -based entrepreneur, is the chairman, CEO, and sole owner of the company. The Jim Pattison Group, Canada's second largest privately held company, has more than 45,000 employees worldwide, and annual sales of $10.1 billion [2] based on investments in Canada, the U.S., Mexico, Europe, Asia and Australia.

  2. The Jim Pattison Group is a diversified holding company operating primarily in the United States and Canada. Proud of our Western Canadian heritage, we’ve chosen Vancouver, BC as the home of our corporate office, but we have hundreds of locations worldwide. The Jim Pattison Group is made up of a number of strong and diverse operating ...

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  3. Established in 1961 by Jim Pattison, the group is comprised of 545 worldwide locations including food and beverage retail and distribution, specialty packaging, advertising, magazine distribution, broadcasting, and automotive retailing. Annual sales have grown from $2.2 million to $8.4 billion. In the same period, the group’s number of ...

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    • The Jim Pattison Group
    • Ripley Entertainment Inc.
    • Expo 86 and 2010 Vancouver Olympics
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    Pattison was born in Saskatchewan in 1928, the year before the Great Depression. With Canada’s unemployment rate eclipsing 32 per cent, Pattison’s parents moved to Vancouver’s east side in 1931. Growing up in the attic of a cramped rooming house, he learned from an early age to look for ways to get ahead. Pattison had his first job by the age nine,...

    Pattison left UBC before graduating to work at the Bowell McLean car dealership. In 1961, at the age of 33, Pattison left the dealership to purchase a GM dealership that sold Pontiac and Buick brand vehicles. With the help of a loan from a local Royal Bank, which was eight times higher than the lending limit for that branch, Pattison would help pio...

    In 1967, Pattison began to expand his business ventures by buying 20 per cent of the shares of Neon Products, a leader in outdoor advertising. With a 20 per cent ownership stake, Pattison executed a hostile takeover of the company. The company went on to own and operate airlines, hockey franchises, department storesand consumer products such as Ora...

    The Jim Pattison Group’s most notable acquisition was made in 1985 when the company purchased the Ripley’s Believe It or Not! franchise. Under The Pattison Group’s management, Ripley Entertainment Inc. has grown to include Guinness World Records, Great Wolf Lodge and multiple aquariums. By 2016, the entertainment division of The Jim Pattison Group ...

    Pattison served as the president and chairman of Expo 86, held in Vancouver in 1986. Pattison worked full-time without pay for over a five and a half-year period. For his efforts, Pattison was named an Officer of the Order of Canada on 29 December 1986, and in 1990 he was a recipient of the Order of British Columbia. Pattison was instrumental in he...

    Pattison has been known to give 10 per cent of his income to charity every year, including once placing a $1 million cheque in a church collection plate. In 2017, Pattison made the largest private citizen donation to a single medical facility in Canadian history. The $75 million donation was used to establish the Jim Pattison Medical Centre in Vanc...

    Pattison is married to his childhood sweetheart, Mary Hudson. The couple has three children, two daughters and one son. The Pattisons own a residence in Palm Springs, California, that once belonged to Frank Sinatra, from whom they purchased the property in 1984. In 1990, Pattison’s 30-year-old daughter, Cynthia Kilburn, was kidnapped and held ranso...

    Officer, Order of Canada(1986)
    Member, Order of British Columbia(1990)
    Commemorative Medal for the 125thAnniversary of Canadian Confederation (1992)
    Inductee, Canadian Business Hall of Fame (1996)
  4. Pattison’s conglomerate, the Jim Pattison Group, is a force to be reckoned with – boasting more than 200 diverse subsidiaries.From automotive retailers and media companies to food and beverage businesses, Jim Pattison’s holdings are vast and varied.

  5. Jun 20, 2019 · Credit: Courtesy of Jim Pattison Group. The conglomerate that Pattison launched in 1961 remains B.C.’s biggest private company by revenue in our latest Top 100 ranking. Almost six decades into his business career, Jimmy Pattison shows no sign of stepping away from the diversified multibillion-dollar empire he built.

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  7. www.forbes.com › profile › jim-pattisonJim Pattison - Forbes

    2 days ago · Jim Pattison oversees a sprawling group that operates 20 divisions including packaging, food and entertainment. Pattison's first business was a GM dealership he bought in 1961.

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